Mini Archie's March Furtle Around The Blogosphere

Hello and welcome to March's Furtle!  I really don't know where the time goes, do you?  I'd hoped to blog at least once between Furtling posts this month, but just haven't managed it.  Maybe April will be my month...


This month, I have finished a pair of socks:

And I finally cut up the embroidered tablecloth that I bought in 2015 and (wait for it) made something from it!

As soon as I saw the Bloem Basket by Johanna Weidner (find the pattern here), I knew that the tablecloth and Liberty lawn combination that I'd been intending to make a table runner with would be absolutely perfect for it, much better, in fact, than my initial idea. I made the small size and have enough to make another one that size and then lots of bits for other projects/bloem baskets.



March was another month where I was confined to my sewing room for days on end (while the floor being laid in the front room), but this time I had internet access (although no telly for just under a week) and I put my time to good use.  I (and you might want to sit down for this bit) started cutting the fabric for the nine patches to go with my Summersville blocks!  Yes!  Only three years after I finished embroidering the house squares and six and a half years after first starting the project!  The not-very-interesting picture below is all the pieces I'll need for the nine patch blocks - these will be set on point and the embroidered blocks will be set square.  I'm also going to try to get back to writing the stories for each block, with the aim that they will be finished by the time the quilt top is finished.

Each print has been paired with a plain (not the same colour as in the print) so all I have to do is fill the bobbin and start sewing - no thinking required!

I've also made another two LV scrappy trip blocks - I'm not sure how I managed that (I suspect no knitting for half the month is the answer) but I can already tell you that that won't be happening in April!

Block three:

Just in case anyone is wondering what the backs look like...

Block four (at least I think that's the right way round, this could actually be block three...):

(Spot the new floor)

And all of them so far.  This is how they'll be arranged in the quilt and it's nice to see them laid out like they've been in my head:

Another busy month!  I'm hoping to not be confined to my sewing room morning, noon and night for a week straight in April so there'll be a considerable decrease in output...


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Mini Archie has laid claim to the bloem basket as his preferred fine-weather transport...

It's luffly and cosy in here, with plenty of room for Tuna Sandwiches and Teacayks...

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